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I don’t particularly care if she’s ‘off-key’. Hearing the rawness and emotion in M’s proper live voice warms my soul. I don’t go to a live M show for vocal perfection.  
(I was at opening night and loved CFY)

I think the problem with crazy for you is that is the original key and it´s too high for her at 65, but she also acting it and singing it from her fragility, so for me it´s a shining moment too. Her voice has deepened a bit, as it expectable, but it´s still beautiful and very clear. Another gold moment is that transition to Bad Girl, when the acoustic sound of the piano starts and she walks so classy and confident but also raw and almost naked. It´s genious, and she sounds amazing, and I rediscovered that ballad again.
For me, the message it´s Ok, I´m not so young anymore, my voice might be deeper, i can´t dance like before, don´t have the top physical shape of 1993, but so what. It´s my legacy, It´s still me, we are alive and we are celebrating, and here I am still doing amazingly well despite the high and lows.
And I celebrate her with deep emotion. 
 

A friend of mine once told me a very good reason why M would avoid to perform Rebel Heart ballads the most no matter how beloved they are by fans and even by the GP. They are very hard to be sung (by both vocally and sentimentally), they touch in very private issues of M's herstory. In a tour with In This Life, Live to Tell and Mother & Father, singing a song where she states her own unability to get things better no matter what she does and the unavoidable conclusion it's better to "go with the flow" and be just carried by the "rainstorm" would be too much for her. In fact, I would go further and tell Rain's chopping lyrics was very necessary to the narrative of concert - ending the song abruptly, before the crucial middle 8, was a way to state future can end to a whole nothing anytime. With this perspective, WAOM wouldn't even be needed as a segue to Rain, its message was already given with the abrupt cut of the latter tune.

In fact, it’s interesting- despite being really sexually provocative on social media over the years, when she tours she’s far from it.
The celebration tour - she’s really avoiding it. Even in the erotica, jml part.
For me, the only part that doesn’t work is hung up on t - to me it’s not necessary and comes across a little tacky - particularly after such a classy rendition of erotica / papa and jml - and then it goes back to classy with fever and bad girl.
I get that it’s the “sex” part of the sex list - but for me personally, it could do without that part and instead do hung up elsewhere in its original format.

Lucky Star Borderline Material Girl Dress You Up Angel True Blue Who's That Girl Causing a Commotion Express Yourself  Cherish Keep It Together This Used To Be My Playground Deeper and Deeper I'll Remember Take a Bow Secret You'll See The Power of Good-bye Substitute for Love Beautiful Stranger American Pie Music What It Feels Like For a Girl Sorry 4 Minutes Give It 2 Me

The vocals, mixing and sound in general are the best she's had since the "Confession Tour". Stuart gets her and works to make her voice work and shine, not the opposite. Kevin Antunes NEVER got her in that sense, so it was all very hit or miss. Some moments were great and others were... not good.
As for the backing track, it's always easier for the singer to sing over their own voice, so it's not surprising at all. It's all well mixed so it can benefit her and her confidence and sound good at the same time and not overdone. It's the best she's sounded live in almost two decades.
Also, I don't think she's having the in-ear guide this time? Obviously she's got feedback with the music and vocals, I mean that robot voice telling her the beginning of the next line. She used that for the "Rebel Heart Tour" and most probably "MDNA" too (and "Madame X"?). She's much more natural now. I think that thing made her feel a little bit odd and unnatural. I much prefer her making mistakes from time to time, honestly, that's normal.

After reading through these last ten pages I am concerned for the mental well-being of our community. 

She triggered everyone in that stadium and fans across the world with this 10 second tease. We are dying with the 10 second rim job edging. 

I don’t care why she did it, I’m over the moon. Do I expect the full song to be performed now? Of course not, she hasn’t rehearsed it as far as we know. It was however a great moment which I appreciate a lot. 

Yes, she did a quick back and forth with the fans.  I'm sure those who were there can speak more, but my guess she was speaking about her lateness or behavior and then went into a line that seemed appropriate to the situation.
It's cool she did it though. 

https://x.com/madonnatribe/status/1716194772514189388?s=20
and it sounds heavenly! 

Scenes like this:

is an homage to

This is so true.  I think many are not obvious to this and are confused by some of the songs and visuals she has on tour.  I totally get when Stuart mentions that it's beyond just the songs that were greatest hits... it's the looks, videos, iconic looks, tours, visuals.

So many 'easter egg's - the LAV scene, 'in bed with madonna' literally - the lucky star 8 bit sample on the phone - it's so clever!

Someone on TikTok pointed out that the outfit for the opening segment looks like a modern reinvention of the The Virgin Tour outfit because of the sleeves, the colors, and the sheer parts:

Have anybody noticed that she used elements from the Club 69 Radio Mix in the beginning and towards the end of the song? 

So awesome the crowd is so unified in singing with her.  They are eating her up.  It's so cool.

The Maluma thing was a brief appearance at someone else's show. Whereas Lucky Star at Confessions was referencing Abba and disco and her start as a dance artist connecting to her recent mammoth dance hit. Which isn't Frida Kahlo but it's also not just knocking a song out for the hell of it.

You're just describing art, though. Literally all art is interpreted by people and great art is interpreted by people differently as time moves on. It is pretty uncontroversial to say that Madonna is an artist and she presents her concerts as pieces of theatre, and this 'oh please stop trying to read meaning into it' just smacks of an attitude that pop music doesn't warrant it, an attitude Madonna more than most dispelled long ago.

Much like this. ¡Gracias piojito!
It's not a 90's section - it's a sexual unapologetic section.
Actually TBW portraits the several conflicts here and there and the way people exploit people as explicited in the meaning of the Book of the Revelation and its selected versicles used to compose the song as well.
The explicit Kabbalah reference is in Die Another Day, where she and her dancers are located as the circles of the Tree of Life, which also appears on the backdrop. To my view M is placed where's the tiferet circle, the very middle one. Also Kabbalah preaches the immortality of the soul and their constant reincarnation, very fitting for a "Die Another Day" theme.

It has, but I hate it when people try to analyze every detail and pretend it has a meaning.
It has always been superficial. The show has a concept and some performances have a message, while other performances are just performances. 

My interpretation is that The Beast Within actually represents pregnancy and birth, after thinking about it. After the 90s sex era, she became pregnant and went into motherhood (Mother and Father) which evolved her career for a comeback (Die Another Day, Don't Tell Me, I Will Survive) and took on the role of Evita (Don't Cry for Me Argentina).
Then she found spirituality and evolved to electronic music (next section)
I also think the opening with Nothing Really Matters, based upon the clothing and headdress is the far off future and is Madonna in death reflecting back on her life, then the story begins.
I'm still not sure why Hung Up is in the 90s section, unless the clock ticking represents her menstrual clock ticking before motherhood

Here's the painting and the bit from the concert, and also Mother of Creation which I think referenced it too: